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The Sugar Lobby: How The Industry Hides The Real Harm Caused By Sugar | Business Documentary from 2012 Every year, the average person in France eats 34 kg of sugar – twice as much as 15 years ago. 80% of the sugar we consume is hidden in everyday foods, like ‘healthy’ breakfast cereals, yogurts or ready meals. For the past decades, the sugar lobby has been on the offensive. Not only are consumers being misled about the quantity and form of sugar in their diets, but the effects of sugar on our bodies are being downplayed. According to some doctors, sugar is not just an empty calorie, it’s a ‘poison’, just as dangerous as cigarettes, and a leading cause of a number of serious illnesses. As well as the epidemic in child obesity, sugar has been linked to diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers. In this investigation, we examine the sugar industry.

Is Sugar the New Fat? | Sweet Death: How Sugar Is Making Us Sick | ENDEVR Documentary | Sugar! What's not to like? It's being touted as highly addictive and the biggest contributor to the current worldwide obesity epidemic. We used to think a high fat diet was to blame so who's the real bad guy? This documentary takes on world-leading scientists and the food industry in an attempt to understand the truth about sugar.

Here in Chiapas, one of the poorest states in Mexico, people drink two litres of sugary drinks a day, and Coca-Cola is king. As health officials declare a diabetes emergency, we meet the families in the thick of a diabetes crisis, a deadly mix of Covid and sugar sending people to early graves.

Nearly half of Kentucky adults have either diabetes or prediabetes. But far too many people don't know it. In a new documentary, KET shines a light on the alarming numbers of people with undiagnosed diabetes or prediabetes and shows how Kentuckians are working to reduce those rates. There's good news to share - -with lifestyle changes and proper care and support, diabetes can be controlled, and in some cases, prevented or delayed.